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Scissors meaning
A tool used for cutting thin material, consisting of two crossing blades attached at a pivot point in such a way that the blades slide across each other when the handles are closed. | A type of defensive maneuver in dogfighting, involving repeatedly turning one's aircraft towards that of the attacker in order to force them to overshoot. | An instance of the above dogfighting maneuver.
Example sentences (20)
Kitsune-ken, unlike mushi-ken or rock–paper–scissors, is played by making gestures with both hands. citation Kitsune-ken was a popular Japanese rock–paper–scissors variant.
Marshall's scissors analysis – which combined demand and supply, that is utility and cost of production, as if two blades of a pair of scissors – effectively removed the theory of value from the center of analysis and replaced it with the theory of price.
Similarly, the French game "pierre, papier, ciseaux, puits" (stone, paper, scissors, well ) is unbalanced; both the stone and scissors fall in the well and lose to it, while paper covers both stone and well.
After working in a hairdressers called Bits and Bobs under the arches, he then moved on to work at a salon called Oliver Twist in Burntwood and then another in Sutton Coldfield called Scissors and Curls.
A police constable, aged in his 50s, had suffered stab wounds reportedly caused by a pair of scissors.
But his first haircut when he came out was not just about choosing scissors or clippers – it was about feeling inner peace.
Can you beat your buddy in an intense game of rock, paper, scissors?
Caster held up the scissors sign.
Cut raspberries in half with kitchen scissors or mash lightly with a fork.
Eddie stuffed a shoulder tackle and then Uno came right back with a head scissors that sent him to the outside.
For instance, she would trim her lawn with a pair of scissors so other neighbors would feel sorry for her and mow it for her.
Hand shears, looking like giant scissors, are fine for a small hedge.
He's dressed in all black again, but this outfit, worn during a lacrosse game, is more intense and athletic than his rock-paper-scissors outfit.
Horus entered at 4:00 and he traded quick reversals with Taurus, including a nice satellite head-scissors takedown.
It begins with scissors cutting through a curtain and then transitioning into a dreamlike world where objects morph into other objects and the laws of physics are bent.
Life before kids: Owns 1 pair of scissors and knows exactly where they are.
Magistrate Aaron Tang fined Gordon $100 for carrying the pair of scissors and sentenced him to a nine-month conditional release order for damaging property.
On Monday, news broke that he sold the U-T to a media conglomerate feared by journalists nationwide for its sharp scissors and its propensity to use them to cut newsrooms to the bone.
SINGAPORE: A 36-year-old man was arrested on Saturday (Dec 31) after he allegedly injured two people in Jurong - punching one victim several times and hitting another with a pair of scissors.
That doesn’t mean you should be running for the scissors just because her bangs look so good.